Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.- Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered,it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies.The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.- Andre Gide

No theory is good unless it permits,not rest,but the greatest work.No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.- Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.- Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company.- Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.- Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which oftenI did not think necessary for me to say -because they were too obvious.- Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspiredby madness and written by reason.- Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving.All you are unable to give possesses you.- Andre Gide

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middleage without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.- Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.- Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.- Andre Gide

God depends on us.It is through us that God is achieved.- Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realizethat tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;that each wave owes the beauty of its line only tothe withdrawal of the preceding one.- Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty andsticking to it that one overcomes it;often it is by working on the one next to it.Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely,at an angle.- Andre Gide

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress,but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer.Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love.It is a pity to make them join too soon.- Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you,do not do it.What another would have said as well as you,do not say it; what another would have written as well,do not write it.Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-andthus make yourself indispensable.- Andre Gide

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.No one can eliminate prejudices -just recognize them.- Edward R. Murrow

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.- Helen Keller

Love one another but make not a bond of love.Let it rather be a moving seabetween the shores of your souls.- Khalil Gibran

Fear defeats more people thanany other one thing in the world.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"is composed of two characters.One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.- John F. Kennedy

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?A terrible thing: no one to blame.- Erica Jong

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.- Anais Nin

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.Heroes set their own course.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.- Anonymous

If you wait for opportunities to occur,you will be one of the crowd.- Edward de Bono

The greatest mistake you can make in lifeis to be continually fearing you will make one.- Elbert Hubbard

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knowswill lead to difficulty.- Lao Tzu

Majority rule only works if you're alsoconsidering individual rights,because you can't have five wolves and one sheepvoting on what to have for dinner.- Larry Flynt

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the menwho walked through the huts comforting others,giving away their last piece of bread...They offer sufficient proof that everythingcan be taken from a man but one thing:to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,to choose one's own way.- Viktor E. Frankl

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.- Khalil Gibran

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,so as to have the life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.- Joseph Campbell

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coalwith the intent of throwing it at someone else;you are the one who gets burned.- The Buddha

I am one with the Earth,with the Water, with the Fire,with the Air that I breathe,with all Living Things,and we are all one with Spirit.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is born at that momentwhen one person says to another,"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."- C. S. Lewis

Individually, we are one drop.Together, we are an ocean.- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."- Hans Christian Andersen

Try a new perspective on diversity.Across the country and around the world,we are all one.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,and it is the one flesh of all humankind.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can not reflect in streaming water.Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.- Lao Tzu